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my pascal is crazy

I have Turbo Pascal instaled on my computer on a Win XP operating sistem it used to work on my Win 98 op.sistem but now when I run it and tipe some lethers it gives me the wrong lethers example: n=% or something like that.
What to do?
Thenks for the answers.

Mike McCracken

I suspect there is an incompatibility between Win XP and Turbo Pascal. Turbo Pascal was written to run on a DOS platform and Win XP is not based on DOS but rather Win NT.

mlmcc

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Mike McCracken

One would expect Win2K and XP to behave similarly but my experience has shown that with legacy software and older versions of software that it will work n one and not the other. It seems to be relatively random as to which it works on.

mlmcc

The_Beeman

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yes I tryed changing my language setting to englisch and nothing has changed

DavidBirch2dotCom

you are running the exe in windows95 compatability mode yes ?

RenegadeBBS

Is this in the IDE or is this after you compile a program and use a readln ?

RenegadeBBS

Try getting another version of Turbo Pascal.

Here is TP v7.01 french
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo%2Eborland%2Efr%2Fdownload%2Fcompilateurs%2F

The french version is free to download. The IDE is in english at least the last time I downloaded it the IDE was. You will
have to create an account upon thier site which is also free to do.

The_Beeman

ASKER

I have already tried to change these settings but it didn't solve the problem. Pascal is writing :'' One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code ''. eg. I press letter 'a' and he writes on screen '%'. It seems there is a problem with my windows because I changed 2 keyboards and it didn't work.
On some PC-s it works perfect with XP and on other systems it is a living hell.I also downloaded several versions of pascal for XP and nothing changed. This question was posted before I tryed RenegadeBBS advice

The_Beeman

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After I had learned a few new french words i managed to download pascal, but message remains ( '' One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code '').By now I have downloaded 11 pascal from different sites and I think the problem is in XP, not in Pascal.
I read in windows help and support center on my pc that there are diffrent CON codes for each country and user is able to set his own code.
Is that answer to my problem - I don't know. ( Where can I enter these codes and which one is if for UK or Croatia ).

Mike McCracken

I would think the problem is related to XP. You might ask that questionin the Win XP area.

mlmcc

alex2k

Visit:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265810

Look for something wrong at Control Panel-Regional and Language options-Advanced-Language for non-Unicode programs.

alexk